It’s a beautiful day to drive up through the lovely rural agricultural area of Central Chile, described to us as the salt of the earth sort of people living the agricultural life. We see horses and carts, tractors, many horses cattle, sheep, goats being raised here. And the huge swaths of cultivated land on rich river valleys. Corn, olives, avocados, tomatoes, quinoa, often being sold at the roadside stalls.
No shortage of water here. And in places, solar fields but none of the huge windmills we have seen on our trip up north.
The copilot gets us a bit lost and my google maps is not working so I have to follow the maps (Hertz gave us a great book of apps of Chile) and watch the blue dot moving on the Iphone GPS system. Better than nothing. (Later I realize my data plan has expired and quickly recharge it at a little kiosk on the street.) We take a detour of about 3/4 of an hour but we have lots of time, and are in fact returning the car a day early.
Of course, there is an air show this Sunday right at the cargo terminal at the airport and a huge lineup of cars - but we lose them at the cargo turnoff. Good thing we are not catching a plane. Jets are making patterns with their jet fuel in the perfectly blue sky.
Unfortunately we have accumulated a ton of stuff and we want to take some of it back to Santiago. We schlep it all on to the shuttle bus, find the Hertz desk in the airport and then easily locate and arrange the VIPtrans car to our hotel, a very efficient system door to door for about $50.
We drop our 3 cases (1 lg 1 sm), 2 backpacks and three other bags!! To the hotel and take off for a good pizza place but - closed Sunday. Not far away is a little Germanic sort of pace we haven’t tried so it’s fish and chips and salad Chilean style with a pisco sour and beer to wash it all down. An early night is called for.
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